Barbara Wertheim Tuchman

 The Calamitous 14th Century

A Distant Mirror

The guns of August

Examines the irrationalities of governments through analysis of four crises of history--the fall of Troy, the Renaissance popes' provocation of the Protestant Reformation, Britain's loss of the American colonies, and America's involvement in Vietnam.

From Troy to Vietnam

The March of Folly

a portrait of the world before the war, 1890-1914

The proud tower

In the dark winter of 1917, as World War I was deadlocked, Britain knew that Europe could be saved only if the United States joined the war. But President Wilson remained unshakable in his neutrality. Then, with a single stroke, the tool to propel America into the war came into a quiet British office. One of countless messages intercepted by the crack team of British decoders, the Zimmermann telegram was a top-secret message from Berlin inviting Mexico to join Japan in an invasion of the United States. Mexico would recover her lost American territories while keeping the U.S. occupied on her side of the Atlantic. How Britain managed to inform America of Germany's plan without revealing that the German codes had been broken makes for an incredible, true story of espionage, intrigue, and international politics.

The Zimmermann Telegram

Stilwell and the American Experience in China

Examines the history of fourteenth century Europe as background to the life of Enguerrand de Coucy VII, one of the most prominent French knights of that time.

The Calamitous 14th Century

In tracing the fortunes of America's commander in China during World War II, the author attempts to explore the U.S.'s involvement with the Chinese.

Stilwell and the American Experience in China, 1911-45

Barbara Wertheim

The noted and popular historian's essays, written over thirty-five years, includes comments on the actual writing of history, shorter historical and journalistic pieces, and essays on the importance of history and historical awareness

Selected Essays

Practicing History

Los Canones de Agosto

The fourteenth century reflects two contradictory images: on the one hand, a glittering age of crusades, cathedrals, and chivalry; on the other, a world plunged into chaos and spiritual agony. Barbara Tuchman examines not only the great rhythms of history but the grain and texture of domestic life: what childhood was like; what marriage meant; how money, taxes, and war dominated the lives of serf, noble, and clergy alike. Granting her subjects their loyalties, treacheries, and guilty passions, Tuchman re-creates the lives of proud cardinals, university scholars, grocers and clerks, saints and mystics, lawyers and mercenaries, and, dominating all, the knight -- in all his valor and "furious follies," a "terrible worm in an iron cocoon."

How the British Came to Palestine

Bible and Sword

Practising History

Guns of August

Sand Against the Wind

A Portrait of the World Before the War, 1890-1914

The Proud Tower

This book is centered on the first month of World War I. Tuchman describes in great detail the opening events of the conflict.

August 1914

Barbara Tuchman's Pulitzer Prize-winning classic about the opening of World War I beautifully reissued and repackaged with The Proud Tower and The Zimmerman Telegram as a Modern Library set: Barbara Tuchman's Great War.

Barbara Wertheim Tuchman

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